Alan Maryon-Davis[1] (born January 1943), is a British doctor turned public health specialist.
[2] a role he combined with a part-time senior lectureship in public health at King's College London, contributing to the undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes.
Alan Maryon-Davis has also been a prolific writer and broadcaster on health matters in a parallel career spanning over 40 years.
He wrote a weekly 'Dear Dr. Alan' Q&A column in Woman magazine for 17 years and has written ten books on various health subjects for the general reader.
He was formerly editor-in-chief of the quarterly magazine Public Health Today and vice-chair of the Medical Journalists' Association (2010–11).